Tag Archives: choral music

French soprano Gwendoline Blondeel's incandescent voice embodies warmth as well as reserve, excitement but also resignation – emotions across the gamut.

This collaboration between vocal ensemble Blue Heron and composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol is as beautiful as it is tricky to describe.

The most striking thing about this death-themed service is the music's continuous excitation of life...the nervous electricity inherent in the fusion of art and the human voice.

With a sound that mixed plangency and purity, and an almost palpable fearlessness, the Fourth Wall Ensemble did this wonderful music justice.

The choral ensemble dusts off the 'Missa pro defunctis' of 16th-century composer Charles d'Argentil – the earliest extant polyphonic setting of the Requiem Mass.

Riverside Choral Society sang music of John Luther Adams and Alberto Grau and the New York premiere of 'The End of Rain' by Scott Ordway, an impassioned response to the California wildfires.

The British a cappella sextet sang baroque and contemporary music that touched on death and grieving but also love and redemption.

The new music sextet unleashes microtones and nontraditional tunings among other boundary-pushing elements of music by six contemporary composers.

The NCC's impressively accomplished young members presented a spirited multicultural concert in New York.

The Clarion Choir delivered a revelatory performance of Rachmaninoff's choral masterpiece inspired by traditional Russian Orthodox chant.